Setting.



SETTING.

APPLIUATION FILED DBO. 21, 1909.

- PatentedNov. s, 1910.

ATTORNEY.

CALVIN DEAN, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOIB, TO CORY & REYNOLDSCOMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, A. CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND,

SETTING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 8, 1910.

Application filed December 21, 1909. Serial No. 534,334.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CALVIN Drama citizen of the United States, residingat Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Settings, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to settings for stones, gems, or other ornaments,and its essential objects are to provide means'for engaging an ornamentwhen the setting body is so stiff or massive, or when the seat for theornament is so remote from the margin of the body or base, as to make itinconvenient or impractical to form integral prongs there on; tofacilitate the disassemblage of the setting parts when it is desired tosubstitute an ornament; to avoid the use of solder; to insure againstplay or dislodgment of the assembled parts, and to attain the enumeratedends in an economical structure.

Other objects will be referred to in the specification.

To these ends essentially my invention consists in the novelconstruction, arrangement and combination of arts hereinafter set forth,and made the sub ect matter of'the ap ended claims.

n the accompanying drawings which form a part of thlsspecification,Figure 1 is a perspective view of my complete setting with an ornamentseated therein, Figs. 2

and 3, like views of the constituent parts of the setting disassembled,and Figs. 4 and 5 smjtions on lines a: m and y 3 respectively of Fig. 1.

ike reference characters mdlcate like parts throughout the views.

The setting body comprises a preferably rectangular relatively heavyopen frame or base A provided with a seat or reduced portion, a, aroundits inner mar "n, in this instance beveled inwardly an downwardly. Thereduced portion ofthe frame is provided with verticalrecesses, inthisinstance four, two of the same b b are opposite each other in theend portions ofthe base, and two, I) b; oppositely disposed to eachother in the side.- portions of the base.

Cut and bent up from thin sheetmetal is a flat open frame 0 providedalong its inner margin with upturned flanges c, and upon its four outermargins with u turned prongs 0' whose ends 0 are prefera 1y but notessentially of greater breadth than the breadth of the recesses. Theauxiliary frame 0 is applied as follows to the main frame A. The upperface of the frame 0 rests against the bottom face of the frame A. Thenecks of the projections or prongs c extend through the recesses b bagainst the innermost walls of the same, while the flanges c are benttightly over and downupon the seat a, of the frame A. Both the pron soand the flanges c prevent any play 0 the parts thus assembled. Theornament Diis then placed in the openings of the frame, and the ends 0of the prongs are downwardly bent thereon to hold the same.

What I claim is,--

1. In agem set-ting, the combination of a body provided with a centralorifice, and with recesses opening into the orifice, a frame upon thebody, flanges upon the frame engaging the margin of the orifice, andprongs upon the frame registering in the recesses and adapted to engagea gem.

2. In a setting, the combination of a body provided with a centralorifice, and with recesses opening into the orifice, a frame upon thebody, flanges upon the frame engaging the body through the orifice,prongs upon the frame registering with therecesses, and heads upon theprongs of greater breadth than the breadth of the recesses.

3. In a setting, the combination of a body provided with a centralorifice, and with recesses opening into the orifice, and with a reducedportion at the margin of the orifice, a frame upon the body, flangesupon the frame engaging the" reduced portion of the body, and prongsupon the frame registering in the recesses.

4. In a set-ting, the combination of a body provided with a centralorifice, and with recesses opening into the orifice, and with a reducedbeveled portion around the margin of the orifice, a frame upon the body,flanges upon the frame overlapping the beveled portion of the body, andprongs upon the frame extending through the recesses.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

' Hona'no E. BELLOWS, v WALTER LOUIS Frost.

